Donald Trump never had the temperament to be President.

Supporters of President Trump continue to blame the Democrats and the media for the current troubles, but Donald Trump has brought his current agony entirely on himself.

Look at each crisis swirling around the White House and every one is a result of unforced errors made by the tweeter in chief. We hate to say we told you so, but this man never had the temperament to be President. For his whole life, Donald Trump has been rewarded for being a frat boy bro. Being a jerk may work when you're running a family business — no private company or publicly owned firm would allow someone like Donald "Bankruptcy" Trump to stay at the top so long — but it certainly doesn't work in the ultimate compromise factory of Washington.

It's not merely that Trump is a novice or incompetent at governing — the nation has survived far worse — but his very personality (i.e. his rage, narcissism and simple inability to understand how employees will react when their professionalism is undermined) is causing all the problems.

Trump told Lester Holt that he had intended to fire James Comey (pictured) all along because the Russia investigation is fake news.

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The Comey firing: Trump asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fabricate an argument for why it was completely reasonable for the President to fire FBI Director James Comey — even in the midst of Comey's ongoing investigation. And Rosenstein, an honorable straight-shooter, did the President's bidding, making a cogent argument that Comey was not a good leader for the Bureau.

But instead of letting Rosenstein's memo stand, Trump then tells Lester Holt that he had intended to fire Comey all along because the Russia investigation is fake news.

Anyone capable of understanding other human beings would know what would happen next: Rosenstein, to protect a professional reputation he built over decades, had no choice but to appoint a special counsel (please Mr. President, note the spelling of "counsel") to investigate the very real news of the Trump's campaign's bizarre links to our enemy, Russia.

Trump wanted the virulently anti-Muslim Flynn on his team, even though putting Flynn in office would give this potentially traitorous rogue access to every single government secret.

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The Flynn hiring: As the Times reported this week, the White House knew that its incoming National Security Adviser Mike Flynn was a paid lobbyist for the oppressive, increasingly non-democratic Turkish government and had met repeatedly with Russian officials.

But Trump didn't care because he wanted the virulently anti-Muslim Flynn on his team, even though putting Flynn in office would give this potentially traitorous rogue access to every single government secret.

Again, anyone with any understanding of the government would know that the keepers of those secrets would push back against the hiring of Flynn — and, indeed, now a federal prosecutor in Virginia is pursuing the case.

As the Times reported, "When that warning (about Flynn's foreign ties) did not dissuade Mr. Trump from making him national security adviser, the Justice Department opened its investigation into his lobbying work."

The Comey memo: Trump obviously knew that he said something to then-FBI Director Comey that he hoped he could set aside his investigation into Mike Flynn — then suggested he had tapes that would exonerate him.

Again, anyone capable of understanding other people would know that Comey would speak out and reveal the truth of his meetings with Trump — meetings that may reveal that the President tried to obstruct justice, which is a far more serious crime than anything else being hurled at Trump. It's what brought down Richard Nixon and led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

Intel inside: When the Washington Post reported that President Trump had given classified information to the Russians, he sent out surrogates to deny it — which led to the spectacle of respected National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster standing at a gaggle of microphones saying that the Post story was not true.

Sure enough, a few hours later, Trump tweeted that he had, indeed, given the classified information to the Russians.

As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....

No one told Trump to give the information to the former Soviets. Yet Trump told McMaster to go out there and lie about it — then threw him under the bus hours later. If McMaster is leaking to the press now, the spigot was turned on by Trump himself.